Reddit responses to my survey question

Reddit was an inlet of primary research and opinions of members of the public also, popular amongst the American crowd, Reddit would provide me with opinions of those overseas in comparison to my mainly English tabloid research.

I posted my question topic on reddit to get an opinion from a anonymous group of people and to find out if there was a consensus to be had.

The results were more detailed of those found on survey monkey and people had more to say, forming an actual debate about the topic.

I don't think there is any evidence women are misrepresented in the music industry. Most of the highest selling artists of all time are women, e.g. Madonna, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, ABBA (since we're including co-ed bands), Rhianna, Beyonce, etc etc.
Notice they are all pop artists. Leeds festival is a rock festival. There aren't many women in rock music, and there aren't many women in Leeds fest. 
Maybe the correct question is why don't more women choose rock?

I wouldnt blame those promoters. There are just way more male musical acts than female

Is this not pretty much just a simple reflection on the amount of female acts out there who are worthy of a big festival gig? I'm not making a judgement there, just really, how many girl bands are there as opposed to male bands? I've watched a lot of live music over the years from bars to bigger venues to stadiums and festivals, and it's quite rare to see a female band.

I would say it is just about who is going to make the most money for the promoters. Pretty much who is the most popular. More male bands might be more popular so there are more males than females in the lineup.

There are less women than men in the music industry? But no, that couldn't be a reasonable explanation. It must be the patriarchy.

• No sexist guy wants to see a woman rock the fuck out. I could write all day about sexism in music, especially rock music.

• I have nothing against women in music, in fact I wish there were more. I'm just saying there are more men in the industry. That's all.

*Women are treated as sex objects or novelties in the music scene. If I had a dollar for every time I heard "I'm in a band with a female [instrumentalist/singer]"...

*Guys constantly think that everything women do is in relation to them. They think that if a woman plays guitar she's just doing it to get attention from guys, not because she enjoys playing guitar.

*Bands with only women are constantly referred to as "girl bands" while bands with only guys always are referred to only as "bands".

*Women are constantly seen in relation to men, not as individuals, leading to comments like "she's good for a girl" or "she's one of the best female guitarists". You don't ever hear "he's good for a guy" or "he's one of the best male guitarists".

*There are plenty of female fronted rock bands, but they're overlooked because men expect only men to be good musicians. And once again, you never hear "male fronted band", because men are not seen as novelties.

There's a general bias against music women like, it's not considered "cool". Taylor Swift (for example) can only be a "guilty pleasure" at best. Festivals want a cool line-up, so because of this it's ends up mostly music that guys enjoy. And guys mostly want music by other guys, for some reason.